Commentary: Why we need a national day of remembrance for COVID victims
In New York City, a woman opens her laptop to a bar graph showing the number of COVID-19 deaths nationwide each month in 2021 and fixes her gaze on April. She tells a researcher: “My mother is one of them.” The graph helps her see that her mother is “part of something bigger happening to the country,” she says.
In the nation’s capital, a man kneels on a patch of grass near the Washington Monument to place a white flag in honor of his brother. He
